{"id":4364,"date":"2010-11-03T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2010-11-03T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T16:35:27","slug":"krugman-and-me-blame-the-whiny-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/11\/03\/krugman-and-me-blame-the-whiny-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman (and Me): “Blame the Whiny Center”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just going to go ahead and lift the entirety of Krugman’s post<\/a>, because I want you to read the whole thing. What else should we do in these waning days of socialism, right?<\/p>\n

So, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re already getting the expected punditry: Obama needs to end his leftist policies, which consist of \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, there weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any, but he should stop them anyway.<\/p>\n

What actually happened, of course, was that Obama failed to do enough to boost the economy, plus totally failing to tap into populist outrage at Wall Street. And now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the trap I worried about from the beginning: by failing to do enough when he had political capital, he lost that capital, and now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck.<\/p>\n

But he did have help in getting it wrong: at every stage there was a faction of Democrats standing in the way of strong action, demanding that Obama do less, avoid spending money, and so on. In so doing, they shot themselves in the face: half of the Blue Dogs lost their seats.<\/p>\n

And what are those who are left demanding? Why, that Obama move to the center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Harry Reid will lead the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just going to go ahead and lift the entirety of Krugman’s post, because I want you to read the whole thing. What else should we do in these waning days of socialism, right? So, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re already getting the expected punditry: Obama needs to end his leftist policies, which consist of \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, there weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t